Nebaliidae

Nebaliidae
Nebaliidae
Nebalia bipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Leptostraca
Family: Nebaliidae
Samouelle, 1819
Genera
  • Nebalia Leach, 1814
  • Nebaliella Thiele, 1904
  • Dahlella Hessler, 1984
  • Sarsinebalia Dahl, 1985
  • Speonebalia Bowman, Yager & Illiffe, 1985

Nebaliidae is the largest of the three families of leptostracan crustaceans, containing 33 of the 40 described species. Its members may be dinstinguished from members of the other two families by the tapering form of the caudal furcae (which is broader in Nebaliopsididae), and by the callynophores of the antennae in mature males, which are swollen in Paranebaliidae but not in Nebaliidae.[1]

References

  1. ^ Genefor K. Walker-Smith & Gary C. B. Poore (2001). "A phylogeny of the Leptostraca (Crustacea) with keys to families and genera". Memoirs of Museum Victoria 58 (2): 383–410. http://museumvictoria.com.au/pages/4128/58_2_walker.pdf. 

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